I’ve been researching the career of the Rev. Canon John Andrew Sloan (1855-1915), the Catholic priest who baptized, married, and buried many of my paternal ancestors, first at St. Patrick’s, Fallowfield/St. Isidore’s, South March, and then at St. Mary’s, Ottawa….
Continue reading →By Emmett Patrick Sloan Emmett Patrick Sloan (1920-2007), RCAF pilot and WWII veteran, was the son of John Percival (‘Percy’) Sloan and Mary Lillian Fagan, and a descendant, through his mother’s side of the house, of James Moran and Margaret…
Continue reading →A few points about Catholic baptismal sponsors: In French records, the godfather was le parrain, while the godmother was la marraine. In English language registers, they might be called godparents, or they might be called sponsors. In the very first…
Continue reading →During the 1930s Alex and Annie operated a small grocery shop in their home on Armstrong St. In the depths of the depression my father, who was a railroader, got very little work and we were often short of cash….
Continue reading →Last Remembrance Day I posted a brief remembrance of Emmett Patrick Sloan and Donald Michael Sloan. I’ve since come across a couple of brief but interesting newspaper notices relating to the two brothers. These I discovered through a search of…
Continue reading →Emmett and his brother Donny served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Donny’s plane was shot down; and he spent time as a POW in a camp in Germany. [When my dad was a kid, he…
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